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The FreeFrom Food Awards 2016 – the party – and the future!!!!

28/04/2016 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Oh yes – the paparazzi were out in force – including Simeon (or was it Isaac) Bailey, judges in the children's category, who had come to the party with their Mum, Christine who organises the children's judging for us. Here he is snapping Tesco (Fiona Carter and Nicki Clowes) …

Category: Allergies, Blogging/social media, Coeliac/celiac disease, Dairy-free, Food, FreeFrom Awards, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, Nutrition, Peanut allergyTag: Alex Gazzola, Allergy Adventures, Antony Worrall Thompson, BoojaBooja, Chef Dean at the Royal College of Physicians, Coconut Collaborative, Cressida Langlands, Food Allergy Intolerance Ink, Food and Drink Innovation Network, FreeFrom Food Awards, FreeFrom Food awards 2016, FreeFrom Food awards Marble Mo, FreeFrom Superhero, Grace Cheetham, Kate Bush and Wuthering Heights, Laura Marzen gluten free beer, Life Health Foods, Mrs Crimble's, Nutirbix, Nutribix, Royal College of Physicians, sorghum, Wide Circle Cooking, winner of the Freefrom Food awards 2016

All judged……

06/02/2016 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  3 Comments

So, the FreeFrom Food Awards judging is over for another year. Two weeks, nearly 450 products, 65 judges and thousands of judging sheets. And although it is seriously full on (6am to 9pm when-you-fall-into-bed 'full on') it is hugely enjoyable both for all of us and, it seems, …

Category: Allergies, Blogging/social media, Coeliac/celiac disease, Dairy-free, Food, FreeFrom Awards, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, Nutrition, Nuts, Peanut allergyTag: #FFFA16, 7yearstodiagnosis, Alex Gazzola, anchovy hummus, butterbean hummus, Can I eat there?, Christine Bailey, Free From Food awards judging, FreeFrom Farmhouse, FreeFrom Food Awards, FreeFrom Food Awards judges, hummus recipes, hummus with dried chickpeas, labelling freefrom foods, Sue's coeliac diary, What allergy?, Yoga Nidra

Why is gluten-free food so expensive?

03/02/2016 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  3 Comments

I am afraid we are up to our eyeballs in the FreeFrom Food Awards judging at the moment so neither managed to see the Channel 4 programme yesterday nor read the Mail/Sun. But, thank goodness, Alex is on the ball and has covered the subject for us on his Food Allergy and …

Category: Allergies, Coeliac/celiac disease, Food, FreeFrom FoodTag: Alex Gazzola, Food Allergy and Intolerance Ink, FreeFrom Food Awards, Genius Gluten Free, Lucinda Bruce Gardyne, Tesco tomato ketchup, Why is gluten-free food so much more expensive?

‘Gluten free’ versus ‘freefrom gluten’

25/01/2016 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  11 Comments

Worrying about precise definitions is not something that comes naturally to me – I am more of a broad brush sort of person. So many are the arguments that I have with Alex, the acme of precision in definitions terms – and many are the rude names that I have called him when, yet …

Category: Allergies, Food, Food/Health Policy, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-freeTag: 20 parts per million gluten is gluten free, Alex Gazzola, allergen labelling, chaos of PAL, Food Allergy and Intolerance Ink, free from gluten, Gluten free, gluten regulations, PAL, precautionary allergen labelling, Waitrose gluten free porridge oats

The oat issue – to be an allergen or not to be an allergen….

29/11/2015 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  2 Comments

Back in August Ruth of What Allergy? was at a judging session for the Freefrom Eating Out Awards at which the subject of oats arose – are they in fact an allergen and are they actually gluten free? But, after a lengthy discussion, she ended up more confused than when she …

Category: Allergies, Blogging/social media, Coeliac/celiac disease, Food/Health Policy, FreeFrom Awards, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, NutritionTag: Alex Gazzola, allergenicity of oats may depend on the breed, are oats an allergen?, are oats gluten free?, avenin in oats, Coelaic UK advice on oats, Commission Delegated Regulation No. 78/2014), Finnish research on oats, FIR regulations 2014, Food Allergy and Intolerance Ink, gliadin in wheat, gluten legislation January 2012, gluten-free oats, hordein in rye, Ruth of what allergy?, secalin in rye, What allergy?

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